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CSMR
2002
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Evolution Support by Homogeneously Documenting Patterns, Aspects and Traces
The evolution of complex software systems is promoted by software engineering principles and techniques like separation of concerns, encapsulation, stepwise refinement, and reusab...
Johannes Sametinger, Matthias Riebisch
WCRE
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding Feature Evolution in a Family of Product Variants
Existing software product variants, developed by ad hoc reuse such as copy-paste-modify, are often a starting point for building Software Product Line (SPL). Understanding of how ...
Yinxing Xue, Zhenchang Xing, Stan Jarzabek
WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Omar Alam, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
IWPSE
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Languages evolve too! Changing the Software Time Scale
Humans will have to live with software for a long time. As demonstrated by the Y2K problem, computer professionals used a wrong time scale when thinking about software. Large soft...
Jean-Marie Favre
ASWEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Measuring the Strength of Indirect Coupling
It is widely accepted that coupling plays an important role in software quality, particularly in the areas of software maintenance, so effort should be made to keep coupling level...
Hong Yul Yang, Ewan D. Tempero